Khurram Sher is a “31-year-old Montreal-born pathologist.” As a doctor, he is well educated and — even with Canada’s socialist medical system — fairly wealthy. Does he know that poverty and ignorance cause terrorism? Isn’t the U.S. State Department ready with money and education projects for him, to turn him away from the path of jihad?

“Sher knew he was funding terrorists, prosecutor argues,” by Chris Cobb and Andrew Seymour for the Ottawa Citizen, April 3:

OTTAWA — Accused terrorist conspirator Khurram Sher knew his money was going to fund terrorism and far from being an innocent caught in a web of terrorist intrigue was an active participant, Crown prosecutor Jason Wakely alleged Thursday.

Sher, a 31-year-old Montreal-born pathologist, has pleaded not guilty to conspiring with two others to facilitate a terrorist conspiracy.

Key to the case against Sher is a 70-minute conversation secretly recorded at an Ottawa apartment by RCMP anti-terrorist officers in July, 2010.

Defence lawyer Michael Edelson, who finished his final argument early Thursday, has portrayed the translation and transcript of the conversation as error-riddled, pointing out that the RCMP had used unqualified officers whose involvement in the case left them open to bias interpretations.

But Wakely said the recording was clear, the transcript accurate, and Sher’s disagreements with various words and phrases “inconsequential.”

The pathologist’s own evidence had been self-serving, evasive and often clearly in conflict with the truth, he said.

“‘I don’t remember’ is a constant refrain from Dr. Sher,” said Wakely.

Sher’s claim that he hadn’t remembered portions of the conversation until he was reminded of it after his arrest in August 2010 was one of a series of those “self-serving memory lapses”, said the prosecutor.

If Sher was, as he claims, unaware he was in the midst of a conspiracy, the conversation would have been traumatic.

“It’s not every day you have a conversation with an admitted al Qaeda member,” he said.

Sher testified that one of his alleged co-conspirators was a friend with whom he had a relationship based on a love of sports and playing fantasy hockey.

But the “sports-only” characterization of his relationship with the friend was not true, Wakely said, adding that Sher was attempting to portray himself as apolitical when the evidence showed the opposite.

“He was deeply engaged in political issues,” said Wakely. “Everyone knew that the relationship between the two was going to be a crucial issue in this case and so Sher portrayed that relationship in a manner that was clearly misleading.”

Sher had given $400 to his friend claiming he was duped into believing it was to help the poor and needy. But Wakely alleged that Sher knew the money was to fund terrorism abroad.

Sher had been an organizer of a letter-writing campaign to newspapers about numerous aspects of Canadian and American Middle East policy, claimed Wakely, but in one of many “obstinate denials” had replied “no” when asked during cross-examination if he considered Palestinians to be oppressed.

“Dr. Sher refused to admit obvious facts,” he said.

Wakely alleged that when Sher arrived in Ottawa for the July meeting, he was already committed to the terrorist cause and that his account of the recorded conversation “completely strains credibility.”

His alleged co-conspirators held little back from him in the way of information but he made no attempt to retreat from the situation, he said.

“Conspirators need not know every detail of a conspiracy so long as they know overarching objective, and by the end of this meeting he (Sher) knew what the overarching objective was and had agreed to help achieve it.”

But Edelson said the pathologist had done nothing illegal.

The conversation, he said, descended into “laughing, farce and all sorts of stupidity” and suggestions that Sher be named head of “the ministry of joke affairs,” Edelson said.

Attempts to pick a leader for the alleged conspiracy involved randomly drawing names, spinning a bottle or relying on a Dustbuster. Whatever name was on a piece of paper that was sucked up would become the leader….

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“Attempts to pick a leader for the alleged conspiracy involved randomly drawing names, spinning a bottle or relying on a Dustbuster. Whatever name was on a piece of paper that was sucked up would become the leader….”

*facepalm*

Where did they get those ideas, a rejected Four Lions draft screenplay?

It goes without saying that ALL muslims are unequivocally committed to the concept of jihad! Of course this sleazeball was supporting terrorism–AND HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOING! IT’S THEIR HIGHEST CALLING!!!
Here’s a thought–how about if all muslim immigrants, and visitors from muslim countries,(unfortunately this guy was native born) are required by law to sign a prerequisite for obtaining a travel Visa, which discloses their committal or non-committal to islamic jihad. On the surface it may seem like an insignificant requirement, but at the very least, we’d have them on record for lieing under oath–YES, THEY WOULD ALL LIE ABOUT IT!

ATTENTION Canadian Security Intelligence Service! SLEEPER jihadists are all among Canadians…they are grocers, taxi drivers, doctors and teachers. THEY HATE CANADIANS AND CANADA and wish to commit genocide.

Why is the government of Canada bringing MORE jihadists in every week as part of its INSANE refugee program? Jihadists are pouring into Canada. They threaten the lives and well-being of Canadians and drain money through increased need for police and expense health programs for the genetic defects caused by their normative cousin marriages.

“Why is the government of Canada bringing MORE jihadists in every week as part of its INSANE refugee program? Jihadists are pouring into Canada” ????
I keep on asking that question over and over for the past 3 to 4 years. Not just in Canada, but that INSANE refugee program is ALL OVER the whole world. WHY? WHY? WHY? WHO IS BEHIND ?????

According to the research results, poverty and lack of education are not significant factors leading young men to transform into radical Muslims. They simply have a cause they strongly believe in and are willing to fight for it. Usually, it involves Western interference in their ME homelands.

Jihad has been going on for 1400 years, and in the vast majority of that period it has been offensive: raiding and invading and occupying the lands of others, who had done nothing to Muslims whatsoever. What had the inhabitants of distant Sind done to Muslims, that Muslims felt justified in crossing the sea and invading them and butchering them by the millions?

Muslims have murdered millions and enslaved millions and ruined the lives of millions on three continents; in the past century they have begun operations in the New World, and in Australia.

These guys are not motivated by any kind of grievance except the ‘grievance’ that offends the malignant narcissism of Islam: the fact that there are still many people in the world who are not Muslims, and large portions of the world where Muslims do not rule, absolutely.

“…Muslim grievances are the frustration of conquerors, the broken teeth of predators who weren’t allowed to feed on the world until their stomachs burst…

“The fundamental Muslim grievance is that they are not in power, not just in Israel where the world has accepted their demand to be in power as a wholly moral and legitimate demand, or throughout the Muslim world where Western governments have helped bring the Islamists to power with bombs and political pressure. The fundamental grievance is that they are not in power… everywhere..”.

“Their “I was minding my own business until this cartoon offended me, until I was hauled off to Gitmo for absolutely no reason, until people give me dirty looks on the street for absolutely no reason and then I just had to kill as many of them as I could” narrative.

“ That narrative of innocence is a lie.

“People are not innocent, and the conquerors and oppressors of much of the world are certainly a long way from innocent.

“Historical Islam was a brutal conquering ideology that fed off blood and human misery.
“No amount of revisionist history will make that go away and the revisionist history is a disgusting insult to the millions killed and the cultures wiped out for the greater glory of Islam.

“A religion that has never stopped practicing genocide, slavery and repression as religious mandates is the worst positioned to act out the charade of innocence, to pretend that everything was fine until the Ottoman Empire fell and the British and French colonialists replaced the Muslim colonialists and gave the local minorities civil rights instead of a spiked boot in the face…”.

Did the CMA ever consider expelling and deregistering Jihaddist “Helath Care Professionals” on the grounds that supporting Jihad is not compatible with the Hippocritic – excuse the pun – Hyppocratic Oath?

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